Season 1

Season 1

This premiere episode deals with the story of Alabama Senator Oscar W. Underwood, whose opposition to Prohibition and the Ku Klux Klan cost him the Democratic presidential nomination in 1924 and later his Senate seat.

Senator Robert A. Taft, a leader in the Republican Party, criticizes the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials as illegal examples of ex post facto laws. This stance may have cost him his party's nomination for President in 1948 and 1952.